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New Features

Support includes in user menu files.

Unix port (Linux, FreeBSD, OpenSolaris).

Win64 port.

Use Unicode for all file names on Windows & Unix.

Syntax highlighting in the viewer.

Viewer and editor support for Unicode text files.

Symbolic link support in Unix & Windows.

Panels display a link's target.

Ctrl-Shift-F5 creates a link.

F8-Delete knows not to recurse into a link to a directory.

Links to files require Windows Vista or later. Directory links require Windows 2000 or later and NTFS

Support for 7zip archives.

Support for bzip2 files.

Scroll back viewer to browse previous program output (Only enabled for unix by default).

File Information display (Ctrl-I) shows complete file metadata.

OS/2 & Windows: Ctrl-Shift-E to eject removable media & Ctrl-Shift-L to load.

Unix: Ctrl-M displays mount point selection list with eject function

Minor Enhancements

Change the search match highlight colour in the viewer from "Menu Bar" to "Highlight" which is consistent with the editor and more sensible.

Preserve the case of environment variable names.

Case insensitive matching is now Unicode based so will work with all languages.

Allow re-sorting of File Find results before search has finished.

Use a separate thread to update the file copy progress box to reduce flicker and improve copy speed.

Editor: line length limit of 64kB removed.

Windows: Don't query CWD of network drives at startup.

Windows: Resolve subst'd drives when determining if a file can be moved without copy/delete.

Added new syntax highlighting directive, "statechange" which allows more flexible state transitions.

Added includes in syntax defintion file.

Add support for Unicode file names in RAR archives.

TAR file support improvements

Fix checksum calculation when there are bytes in the header >127.

Interpret file names as UTF-8.

Added field in File Find to specify the code page used when searching files for the "Containing" string.

Copy/Move: Add ability to specify overwrite mode in the initial dialog so that you don't have to wait for the first collision to occur.

Add !lf operator to provide a list of tagged files with their full path.

Add !tf (tagged file with full path).

Add ability to remove an entry from command history with Delete key.

Syntax Highlighter: Add /w flag for syntax states of "word scope" to assist with LISP keywords.

Syntax Highlighter: Enable word characters to be redefined for each state.

Bug Fixes

User Menu: Make menu item hot key work if specified in lower case in the mnu file. This used to work in 2.20 but was broken while adding support for sub-menus.

Fix display of hex view when code page translation is active. Was "translating" the vertical bar separators.

Fix file copy ETA overflowing copy progress dialog & causing screen corruption when a huge file copy starts off slowly.

In Change Case, mixed mode should not capitalise the character after an apostrophe.

In viewer, fix background colour of line continuation markers (right arrow at the end of a line that's longer than the window when unwrapped).

Windows: Fix "Overwrite All Older" option on windows when using CopyFileEx.

Multi-file search/replace confirmation prompt, extend box width if necessary to fit the text values and don't overflow box if text still won't fit.

Fix !F when opposite panel is showing an archive's contents.

Fix !t behaviour in archives.